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This coming Sunday, September 28th, there will a community-based critical review of the incident at the Harlem chapter s weekly meeting. This will take place at the National Black Theatre, on the corner of 5th Avenue and 126th Street at 12 noon , and there will be a speak out on the streets immediately afterwards in front of the Harlem State Office building after Sunday s meeting about 2p.m.. They are being guided every step of the way by their national chairman attorney Malik Zulu Shabazz and have vowed to continue to raise hell, in his language. Any witnesses to the incident are especially encouraged to come out and participate in the dialogue. For more information, please call 917-420-8662

THE BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF THE SOUTH WARD CONTINUES On Tuesday, September 30th, there will be a Quality of Life Unity Rally, at the corner of Bergen Street and Custer Avenue at 12 noon, in the ongoing struggle to prevent an unwanted liquor establishment from coming into this historic Black neighborhood. This event, echoing its ongoing theme Futures Not Funerals, is being organized by a powerful united front of community elements, led principally by elder Carolyn Kelly-Shabazz of First Class Championship Center, and including Imam Aqeel Mateen of United Muslim Inc., Church leaders Evangelist Dorothy Statham and her husband Rev. Ronald Statham of Gethsemane Church of God in Christ, Rev. Pauline Ballard of the Pentecostal Prayer Center, Zayid Muhammad of the New Black Panther Party , author Sandra West, editor of the Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance, and most recently Sha Reagins, principal of the TEAM Academy, an incredible charter school just two blocks from the contested site of the liquor establishment, among many more. Area law states that a community can stop the opening of any liquor establishment if churches and or schools within a certain radius oppose its opening for public safety reasons. Several weeks ago, the neighborhood resistance effort rallied around community clergy and held a Unity Prayer Vigil which included a nearly block-long wall of silence, a high form of protest speak to the appreciation of the community. The prayer vigil was an expression of area clergy s opposition. The rally on the 30th will bring together both the opposition of area clergy and schools. Haven t we had enough funerals for our kids who we are losing to the madness of these streets? asked Carolyn Kelly-Shabazz, a principal organizer in the resistance. Here we are with a chance to prevent some of the negative influences that are claiming our kids from coming into our community, crossing every legal t and dotting every legal I, and yet the City continues to drags its feet on this issue. How long are we going to be held hostage to this process? Unlike the protest focus of the previous gatherings, this gathering will also showcase some of the enormously positive things happening with the neighborhood s youth. This will include a spotlight of the TEAM Academy s students. This new administration is supposed to be a Quality of Life administration. Yet they continue to drag their feet on our right to be heard. All we are saying is be consistent with your policy, not hypocritical. What about the quality of our children s lives, said Muhammad, the Party s national minister of culture. For more information, please call 973 318 7013